Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...temperature plummets, students face the annual question of whether or not the time has come to pack away their shorts for good. Should they resign themselves to another season of ankle-length coverage or flout convention by remaining faithful to their summer attire? Of course, shorts-wearers must endure hardships from bitter air biting at their legs to flabbergasted double takes. These individuals must possess extraordinary self-confidence to publicly expose themselves daily. In short, to wear shorts in the winter is to be a true iconoclast, a super hero who rejects all societal notions of behavior, a human being...
...Appropriations Committee chairman Bob Livingston, who owed his position to Gingrich, was already calling members, testing out the idea that he might run for Speaker, while others, such as conservative Steve Largent, began sniffing around other leadership seats. Livingston even called Gingrich and suggested in passing that he resign, but Gingrich did not seem alarmed...
...last month Travelers merged with Citicorp to form Citigroup. Weill now serves as co-CEO with John Reed in an unwieldy structure that is slowing the integration of the two companies and frustrating top deputies. Underscoring that point, Weill protege and presumed heir Jamie Dimon was forced to resign last week. The co-CEO thing won't last, and my bet is that Weill will emerge on top. But for now it's a power struggle. Shareholders may suffer. Indeed, Citigroup stock fell the day after Dimon was ousted. Consider buying the stock of the company that lands...
...Republican revolution is over. Speaker Newt Gingrich, the confrontational rebel who engineered the GOP's 1994 takeover of the House after more than four decades of Democratic dominance, announced Friday that he would resign from the Congress, just three days after midterm elections which reduced the Republican advantage to a thin 11-vote margin...
...Year: Ayatullah Khomeini Jan. 7, 1980 2. Last Tango in Paris cover Jan. 22, 1973 3. Editorial calling on Nixon to resign Nov. 12, 1973 4. The Starr Report Sept...